Purpose

The GeoServer web administration console is built on top of the Wicket 1.4.x series,
which is pretty old and unmaintaned. The purpose of the sprint is to update it to Wicket 7.x, the current stable version.

Due to the large distance between the two releases and the number of backwards incompatible changes accumulated
by Wicket in the years this will require the concerted effort of a handful of developers over a few days, including the
changes to upgrade the code, and the thorough hand testing of the resulting modified interface.

Sponsors

We would like to extend our thanks to the following sponsors:

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

In-Kind Sponsors

Organizers

Jody Garnett - Boundless

Andrea Aime - GeoSolutions

Venue and dates

The code sprint will be held in Victoria BC to minimize travel costs. Boundless has offered to provide a venue (either the Boundless Victoria offices or a local technology centre).

The date is tentatively set for the week of January 18th.

This date is selected towards of the GeoServer 2.9 release cycle prior to the code freeze in February, keeping resource availability in mind.

Accommodation and costs

Participants should plan the travel, accommodation and meals.

Depending on sponsorship level guests to Victoria will be hosted at or billeted with local community.

At the time of writing accommodation for four guests is available (thanks to Jody Garnett and Martin Davis).

We hope to raise enough financial support to cover overseas travel, and possibly meals.

Sponsorship

We have the following sponsorship levels:

Gold

$1000 CAD

$720 USD

€656 EUR

Silver

$500 CAD

$360 USD

€328 EUR

Bronze

$250 CAD

$180 USD

€164 EUR

Beer

In-kind contributions are graciously accepted

Contributions will be put towards travel costs for overseas sprinters who would be otherwise unable to attend. Any surplus at the end of the event will be turned over to OSGeo or used for a future code sprint. We have set-up the sprint to minimize travel and accommodation costs.

Sponsors will receive the following honors:

Your logo at the top of this page

Mention in all of our public communication, including GeoServer 2.9 release announcement

If you cannot attend in person you may still be in position to update screens or assist with testing a nightly build overnight. Close collaboration for manual testing will require use of IRC/Skype/Hangout as appropriate for the parties involved.

Participants helping out Remotely

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Participant

Country

Communication

Notes

1

Ian Turton

United Kingdom

Hangout

Hapless volunteer

2

Ben Caradoc-Davies

New Zealand

Email/Skype/Hangout

Moral support and build nanny

3

Gabriel Roland

Argentina

Email/Hangout

Experienced with wicket

Sprint

The schedule has been broken down by day to help plan activities for those with limited availability. If you can stop by for an afternoon to help with testing, or volunteer online to test a nightly build, please let the team know.

In scope:

Use of Java 8 syntax to reduce wicket boiler plate code

Mike Pumphrey will be on hand to update user guide as each screen is completes manual testing

Out of scope:

Changing the codebase to use a different library (the effort would be at least an order of magnitude bigger)

Improve the behavior of the current UI (we can make improvements at the end, once everything works, if time remains)